The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life by Lyndsy Spence
$34.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The six Mitford girls were blessed with beauty, wit and talent, yet they led very distinct, cultural lives and not one sister, except for Diana and Unity, shared the same opinion or ideology. Nancy Mitford was the ultimate tease and her talent for mockery reformed the publishing industry in the 1930s an ...Show more
Old Seems to be Other People by Lily Brett
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
'People assume that if you are female and over seventy you are oblivious to men's good looks. No one would blink if a 99-year-old man wearing an oxygen mask mentioned a good-looking woman...' Most of us would like to live to an old age, but few of us actually want to be old. In this disarming and gently ...Show more
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
$24.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into run ...Show more
Johnathan Thurston: The Autobiography by Johnathan Thurston
$35.00 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The autobiography of the league legend. Johnathan Thurston is widely regarded as rugby league's greatest player. This autobiography will follow Thurston's journey from a Brisbane kid who was written off as too skinny, too slow and too wild to play professionally, to his debut with the Canterbury Bulldog ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
Diary of a Rural GP (PB) by Michael SPARROW
$27.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
''Yes, I know it contravenes every rule in the book... lucky I threw that out years ago.'' Recently retired, Dr Sparrow reveals with refreshing candour and dark humour the most memorable experiences of his career as a rural GP on the Devon/Cornwall border. From sewing a patient's finger back on during a ...Show more
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
Unseen by Jacinta Parsons
$32.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Broadcaster Jacinta Parsons was in her twenties when she first began to feel unwell – the kind of unwell that didn’t go away. Doctors couldn’t explain why, and Jacinta wondered if it might be in her head. She could barely function, was frequently unable to eat or get out of bed for days, and gradually t ...Show more
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
$26.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
WINNER OF THE 2019 KIRKUS PRIZE IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE 2020 STONEWALL BOOK AWARD-ISRAEL FISHMAN NONFICTION AWARDONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019One of the best books of the year as selected by The Washington Post; NPR; Time; The New Yorker; O, The Oprah Magazine; Harper's Bazaar ...Show more
Bad Faith : A story of Family and Fatherland by Carmen Callil
$27.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
"Bad Faith" tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and conmen - Louis Darquier, Nazi collaborator and 'Commissioner for Jewish Affairs', who dissembled his way to power in the Vichy government's and was responsible for sending thousands of children to the gas chambers. After the wa ...Show more
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
$22.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
Father Dreg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you've ever met-a man who lounges in boxer shorts and loves action movies. His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church's country. When a crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents' rectory, their worlds collide. I ...Show more
Play It Again: An Amateur Against The Impossible by Alan Rusbridger
$39.99 AUD
Category: biography & memoir
The Guardian editor's account of a remarkable musical challenge during an extraordinary year for news. In 2010, Alan Rusbridger, the editor of the Guardian, set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, in the space of a year, Chopin's Ballade No. 1 - a piece that inspires dread in many professional ...Show more